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Should anabolic steroids be legal?
Questions about steroid use have pervaded sports of all kinds -- from professional baseball and bodybuilding to high school football. Anabolic steroids are illegal without a prescription and doctors aren't allowed to prescribe them to people who want to simply bulk up.
A new film written and produced by an Oregon native presents the cultural, moral, legal and even familial issues surrounding the use of performance enhancing drugs through the story of three fitness-obsessed brothers -- two who use steroids, and one who doesn't. Through interviews with lawmakers, fitness models, doctors and concerned parents, the film invites the question: should steroids be legal?
Have you used steroids to improve your athletic performance -- or your physique? Have your friends? Why? Would you consider using them if they weren't illegal? What concerns you about the use of steroids in professional and amateur sports?
GUESTS:
- Alex Buono: Writer/producer of Bigger Stronger Faster
- Linn Goldberg: Professor of medicine and head of the division of health promotion and sports medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University
- Noel Fuller: Former bodybuilder, owner of Foster Fitness Center and trainer for professional bodybuilders
Photo credit: SMeaLLuM / Flickr / Creative Commons
Photo credit: NiCoLáS LéViNToN / Flickr / Creative Commons
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I have some cousins in highschool who play school sports, their coaches ask the boys to take performance enhancing drugs. I think it is so wrong for coaches to ask their kids to do that what a bad thing to teach kids, that even if they try their best, they can make it without added that stuff
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...He said that you would not win if you were not useing. Is the point to see how well *you* can do, or is it to be better than all of the rest?
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Any idea if roid rage contributed to some of the wild shooting sprees against Iraqi civilians?